Hay-elevator.



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F. P. SUMMER.

HAY ELEVATGR.

APPLIUATIGN nun $118.18, 1901.

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HAY ELEVATOR.

APPLICATION FILED r113. 1a, 1907.

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witueooeo "No. 885,541. PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

F. F. SUMMER.

HAY ELEVATOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, 1907.

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I FREDERICK F. soMMER, or KALONA, IOWA.

HAY-E LEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented April 21, 1908.

Application filed February 18, 1907. Serial No. 857,932.

" Be it known. that I, FREDERICK 1 Sow jv MER, a citizen 'of the Unitedstatesi, residing .at-K 'alona, n the county of lVashington, State, of Iowa,'have invented certain new .and'useful Improvements in Hay-Elevators and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention suchas will enable others skilled in the mm which it-appertains to make and use i the" same.

j and effectually conveying The .presentinvention relates to improveinefntsjm hay elevators, and itaims to provide a sim 1e, stron ,and durable machine of that class. esigned %or the urpose of quickly iiay or other material from a point near the ground surface, exterior to a barn or storage-house, into the top ofthe latter, and for discharging such material therein at different points, so as to provideas far as possible, itseven distribution.

#With this "end in view, the invention com- I prises ja'iflight of elevators mounted upon a ment 'in an approximately horizontal .30

supporting platform, the uppermost elevator, whichextends into the storagechamber, be

I' ing so mounted With respect to the preceding -provision of a vertically. movable elevator -.connected to the discharge end of theswing ing. .ele vator above referred to and extending rearwardly directly therebeneath, so that i '-'The invention further consists in the construct1on,' comb1nat1on, and arran ement of parts, all as hereinafter more fully escribed,

' 1 specifically claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich like parts .5 'i-Qfthe said draw'ngs Figure numeral in the several views. l is a front elfevation ofthe improved machine. Fig. 2

isaiside elevatiom-thereof; Fig.- 3 is a top plan view.v Fig. 4 IS a vertical sectional view :on the line of-Figg 2 shovving the power transmitting gears,

"i Referring more .p'hi'ticularly to'the ,drawthe machine is shownas having its opare designated by corresponding reference 1 I crating parts mounted upon a platform 7,

which is adapted to be positioned adjacent the barn or" storage-house into which the hay or other material is to be transported. This supporting platforinis provided at op site sides with pairs of u rights 8, 8, an 9, 9, upon the upper ends of which are mounted the longitudinal sills 10 and 11, respectively. The sill 11 is of considerably less length than ,the sill 10 and is disposed in a plane somewhat below that in which the latter lies. The platform 7 is further provided'with an upwardly inclined elevatorframe 12, com us ing a pair of spaced beams 12, connecte by a transverse cross-beam 13, and by up or and lower shafts 14 and 15,disposed para el with the cross-beam. The outer beam 12 of said frame is sup orted centrall b the sill 11', a ainst the beveled end 0 which it rests. T e upper shaft 14 of the elevator frame is provided with a pair of sprocket wheels 14, disposed adjacent the'beams 12, while the lower shaft 15 carries a pair of sprocket wheels 15mounted thereon in a sim1larman-- her, the said sprockets bein connected by the chains 16 of the slatted e evator 17.

' Projectinglaterally from ,the beams. 12 of carries a pair 'ofsprocket wheels 21, royer which the chains 22 of'the slatted elevator 23 travel, tlieisaid sprocket wheels being disposed 'upon, their. shafts similarly .to the sprocket wheels 14 and 15, above referred to. The shaft 20 at its outer end projects beyond the corresponding beam 18 and carries thereona belt-pulley 24, connected b a belt 25, which passes around a similar pul ey 26, "mounted upon theprojecting end of the shaft 15, which lastmentiondshaft is further provided at such pulley 27, driven by a elt 28,-whose opposite end assesaround a pulley-29, mounted upon a s aft 30, jonrnaled in the upright 9. The end ofthe still 11,- opposite frorn'that against which the beam 12 tests, is reduced,

spaced beams 31. which: form the bodyor oint with a second Q sewer frame of an elevator 32, the lower end of which is disposeddirectly beneath the discharge end of the elevator 17. The frame beams 31 are, in like manner, connected by a pair of cross-beams 32, disposed approximately centrally thereof, and are further connected at their upper and lower ends by a pair of shafts 33 and 34, each of which carries a pair of sprocket wheels 36, over which the chains of the slatted elevator 37 travel. The lower shaft 34 of this last-mentioned elevator projects at opposite'ends beyond the correspondin frame beams 31, and carries 'upon one end a beveled pinion 38, in mesh with a larger pinion 39 mounted upon the shaft The opposite end'of shaft-34 can ries a belt-pulley 40.-

. The sill 10 of the supporting platform carrise on its upper face an outwardly-extending supplemental platform 41, comprising a pair of spaced. beams 42, which project laterally from said sill, there being a supportins late 43 secured to the upper face of sai earns. Mounted upon this plate is a turntable 44, this turn-table or swinging; carriage including a pair of oppositely-extending ver- 'tically-inclined beams 45, secured to the side directly beneat faces thereof and serving as supports for the frame beams 46 of an elevator 47 connected thereto, the feed end of the elevator last mentioned being disposed, as will be understood,

elevator 37. The elevator 47 is, in like manner, provided with a pairof op ositelydisposed shafts 48 and 49, each of w ich car'- ries'a pair of sprocketsfil), over which the chains 51 of the slatted elevator 52 travel. This elevator, however, as shown in Fig. 3, stops short some distance from the far end of the beams 46, so as to provide an open space between said beams at such point, through which the hay or other material falls, when discharged from the elevator 52.

Journaled in a de endin bracket secured I to the under face 0 one of the beams 42 of the supplemental platform is a horizontal shaft 54 provided at its inner end witha beveled pinion 55, in mesh with a similar pinion 56, secured to the lower end of'tlre vertical shaft 57, on which the turn-table 44 rotates. The'o posite end of the shaft 57 is likewise provi ed with a beveled pinion .58, meshing with a similar pinion 59, mounted on the 1nner end of a horizontal shaft 60, journaled in the opposite sides of the body of thegtravcling carriage or turn-table, and projecting therebeyon at such point with a belt pulley 61, connected by a crossed belt 62 with a belt pulley 63, secured to thenrojecting end of the shaft 49, which latter is further provided with a second pulley 64 connected by a belt 55 with a simiar pulley 66, carried on the project. of a shaft 67, which extends trans the discharge end. of the at its outer end, being provided I through the beams 4b of the elevator d7, at

the outer end thereof.

The projecting outer'end of the shaft 54 carried by the supplemental platform is fur ther provided with a pair of pulleys 68 and 69, the latter of which is connected by a belt 70 with the pulley 40 carried upon one end of the shaft 34. The pulley 68 is connected by a belt 71 with any referred source of power (not shown), and lie shaft 54, upon which said pulley is mounted, thus serves as the main drive-shaft of the machine.

Loosely pivoted, upon the op osite ends of the shaft 67, carried by the-e evator '47 at its outer end, is a pair of depending links 72, whose opposite ends are connected by a shaft 73, upon which the frame beams 7 4 of the distributing elevator 75 are loosely mounted, the OJPOSitE ends of said beams being connects by a shaft 76, provided with a pair of sprockets 77, connected with the simllarly arranged sprockets 7 8 carried by the shaft 73 by the chains 79 of the slatted 7 One end of the shaft 73 carries a belt ulley 81 connected by a crossed-belt 32 witii a second pulley 83, mounted upon the corresponding end of the shaft 67.

It will be apparent from the foregoin that when powers applied to the main driveelevator 80.

' shaft 54, the several elevators will be driven one from another, owing to their belt con nections, and it will be likewise apparent that when the hay or other material is deposited upon the horizontal elevator 23 from the wagon (not shown) it will be fed. therealong onto the inclined elevator 17, and. on reaching thedischarge end thereof will fall upon ing carriage or turn-table 44, the said elevator frame may be turnedso as to discharge at almost any point within the storage chamber. This adjustment of the discharge point of the elevator 52 is further augmented by the pivotal mounting of the frame carrying the elevator 80, this frame extending rear-- wardly beneath the frame 47 and being capable of an independent vertical movement with respect thereto. frame 7 5 towards and from the frame l7- is ell'ocled by means of a pair of cables 84, the upper one of which is connected at one end with the eyaend of a rod 35 secured to one This movement of the It will likewise be understood 1n reerwardly beheath the latter and mov- In testimony whereof, I effix my sigl mture, ab e bodily therewith;- an elevator movable in presence of two Witnesses.

-upei; 'each'of said elevator frames; means FRED F SOMMER for [driving theseverel elevators one from another; and-means for ralsmg and lowerlng W1tnesses:

said vertically movable elevator frames, to A. MELLINGER, S12,

vary the points of discharge therefrom. R. C. SOMNERS. 

